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Rumble Strip

Bell Rising

Rumble Strip

Erica Heilman / Rumble Strip

Places & Travel, Personal Journals, Society & Culture

4.91.2K Ratings

🗓️ 7 July 2022

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

This show is a kind of coda to Finn and the Bell.... At long last, the bell is in its tower at Hazen Union High School. The final installation happened right before the Hardwick Memorial Day Parade. I stopped by and recorded some of the volunteers as they constructed the tower, hoisted the bell, and rang in its new life up on the hill over Hardwick.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hub and Spoke. Audio collective.

0:04.0

I didn't rig four strands.

0:06.0

This is Rumbel Strip.

0:07.0

I'm Erica-Hileman.

0:08.0

If you hook it here, you're going to lift the bell out of the hangers.

0:11.0

Oh, yeah, true.

0:15.6

We can set it afterwards.

0:16.9

If you put your ties right there and put a kitty corner

0:20.2

so that it doesn't rack on us.

0:23.0

Put you two by fours like you said and then he'll put four, he'll put strap each end.

0:27.0

We'll put the frame up, then put the bell up.

0:30.0

That's Mario Furdett, Reno-Demers, and Todd Delarishir.

0:33.6

They're figuring out how to hoist a very old, very large cast iron bell

0:37.9

into its brand new tower outside Hazen Union High School

0:41.1

in Hardwick, Vermont.

0:42.0

That's up to you.

0:43.0

If you are, you can put that on.

0:45.0

If you listen to Finn and the Bell, you know all about this Bell,

0:48.0

it was Finn's idea to get the old Bell back

0:51.0

from Hardwick Academy and hang it at Hayes and Union to ring out for

0:54.3

the whole town on special occasions. In the end the town of Greensboro gifted their

0:58.9

old school bell to the school and exactly a year later a group of volunteers was gathered in front of the school and exactly a year later a group of volunteers was gathered in front of the

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